'You still have your bar card?' Laughter erupts as lawmaker turns tables on Trump attorney
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) drew laughs during a House hearing when she took a jab at the misfortunes suffered by former attorneys for Donald Trump.
The Texas Democrat asked former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks during a hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government whether she was familiar with the track record of various attorneys who had been criminally charged or disbarred after working for the former president.
"Just curious to know, as we're talking about lawyers and the obligations of lawyers, and whether or not maybe the former president has any idea of what good lawyer obligations look like," Crockett said.
Crockett then asked Wine-Banks whether he'd heard of attorneys Robert Cheeley, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Matthew DePerno, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and Juli Haller, and the lawyer said she was familiar with them, and that she knew they had been charged, disbarred or suspended.
"Oh yeah," Crockett said. "Okay, so they've had some issues, but these are the hand-picked lawyers for Trump."
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Crockett then turned to former Trump lawyer Jim Trusty, who resigned from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case shortly after the ex-president was indicted, and Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen who could be called as a defense witness in the ex-president's hush money trial.
"I’m assuming you all have never been Trump lawyers, Mr. Trusty and Mr. Costello?" Crockett said.
Trusty informed the lawmaker he had been Trump's attorney for a year, and she expressed surprise.
"Oh, and you still have your bar card?" she said, which prompted laughter in the hearing room.
Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Jill Wine-Banks' first name.